Lists of Jews in politics
A list of Jewish politicians by country:
Jewish politicians by country
- Austria
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Israel (Includes non-Jewish politicians)
- Poland
- Russia
- South-east European
- United Kingdom
- United States
Jewish heads of state
- All Presidents of Israel have been Jewish (see list).
- Sir Matthew Nathan (1862–1939), Governor of the Gold Coast from 1900 to 1904, Governor of Hong Kong from 1904 to 1907, Governor of Natal from 1907 to 1909
- Lev Kamenev (1883–1936), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee in November 1917
- Yakov Sverdlov (1885–1919), Chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1917 to 1919
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860–1935), Viceroy of India from 1921 to 1926
- Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Governor-General of Australia from 1931 to 1936
- Léon Blum (1872–1950), Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1946 to 1947
- Morris Fidanque de Castro (1902–1966), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1949 to 1954
- Ralph Moses Paiewonsky (1907–1991), Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1961 to 1969
- Max Delvalle (1911–1979), President of Panama in 1967
- Sir Zelman Cowen (1919–2011), Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982
- Eric Arturo Delvalle (1937-2015), President of Panama from 1985 to 1988
- Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999, atheist
- Ruth Dreifuss (born 1940), President of the Swiss Confederation in 1999
- Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (born 1938), President of Peru from 2016 to 2018, Jewish father, raised Catholic
Non-Jews with Jewish descent
- Juan Lindo y Zelaya (1790–1857), President of El Salvador from 1841 to 1842 and President of Honduras from 1847 to 1852, raised Roman Catholic
- Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935), President of the Dominican Republic in 1916
- Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982, Jewish grandfather, Lutheran
- Ricardo Maduro (born 1946), President of Honduras from 2002 to 2006, raised Roman Catholic
- Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955), President of France from 2007 to 2012, Jewish grandfather, raised Roman Catholic
- Nicolás Maduro (born 1962), President of Venezuela from 2013 onwards, raised Roman Catholic
Jewish heads of government
- All Prime Ministers of Israel have been Jewish (see list).
- Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (1790–1853), Prime Minister of Spain from 1835 to 1836, raised Roman Catholic
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, convert to Anglicanism
- Sir Julius Vogel (1835–1899), Premier of New Zealand from 1873 to 1875 and in 1876
- Vaiben Louis Solomon (1853–1908) Premier of South Australia in 1899
- Alessandro Fortis (1842–1909), Prime Minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906
- Sidney Sonnino (1847–1922), Prime Minister of Italy in 1906 and from 1909 to 1910, raised Anglican
- Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), Prime Minister of Italy from 1910 to 1911
- Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887–1925), Prime Minister of Latvia from 1921 to 1923 and from 1923 to 1924
- Sir Francis Bell (1851–1936), Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1925, Jewish mother, raised Anglican
- Léon Blum (1872–1950), Prime Minister of France from 1936 to 1937, in 1938 and from 1946 to 1947
- Mátyás Rákosi (1892–1971), Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1952 to 1953, atheist
- René Mayer (1895–1972), Prime Minister of France in 1953
- Pierre Mendès France (1907–1982), Prime Minister of France from 1954 to 1955
- David Marshall (1908–1995), Chief Minister of Singapore from 1955 to 1956
- Sir Roy Welensky (1907–1991), Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland from 1956 to 1963, raised Anglican
- Michel Debré (1912–1996), Prime Minister of France from 1959 to 1962, convert to Catholicism
- Sir Joshua Hassan (1915–1997), Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1964 to 1969 and 1972 to 1987
- Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983, agnostic
- Léon Kengo (born 1935) Prime Minister of Zaire from 1982 to 1986, 1988 to 1990, and 1994 to 1997, Jewish father
- Laurent Fabius (born 1946), Prime Minister of France from 1984 to 1986, raised Roman Catholic
- Henny Eman (born 1948), Prime Minister of Aruba from 1986 to 1989 and 1994 to 2001
- Petre Roman (born 1946), Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, convert to Romanian Orthodox
- Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber (born 1929), Prime Minister of Peru from 1994 to 1995
- Janet Jagan (née Rosenberg, 1920–2009), Prime Minister of Guyana from 1997 to 1999, atheist
- Sergey Kiriyenko (born 1962), Prime Minister of Russia in 1998, Jewish father
- Yevgeny Primakov (1929–2015), Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999, raised Russian Orthodox
- Mikhail Fradkov (born 1950), Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007, raised Russian Orthodox
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,[1] (born 1960) Prime Minister of Spain from 2004 to 2011, agnostic
- Sergei Stanishev (born 1966), Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009
- Yehude Simon Munaro (born 1947), Prime Minister of Peru from 2008 to 2009
- John Key (born 1961), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016, agnostic
- Mike Eman (born 1961), Prime Minister of Aruba from 2009 onwards
- Jan Fischer (born 1951), Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2009 to 2010
- Salomón Lerner Ghitis (born 1946), Prime Minister of Peru in 2011
- Volodymyr Groysman (born 1978), Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2016 to present
Non-Jews with Jewish descent
- Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Chairman of Council of People's Commissars of Russia from 1917 to 1924 and Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924, Jewish grandfather, raised Russian Orthodox
- James Callaghan (1912–2005), Prime Minister of United Kingdom between 1976 and 1979, Jewish grandmother,[2] raised Baptist but later converted to atheism.[3]
- Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015), Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, Jewish grandfather
- Zurab Zhvania (1963–2005), Prime Minister of Georgia from 2004 to 2005, Jewish grandmother, raised Georgian Orthodox
See also
- Jewish people from Scandinavia and the Baltics
- Jewish people from Eastern Europe
- Jewish people from Western Europe
- Jewish people from Latin America
References
- ^ "Zapatero, a un diario israelí: 'Antisemitismo había con Franco'" (in Spanish). El Mundo. Retrieved 2017-04-12. Original hebrew article
- ^ Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan: A Life, 1997, p.5 "His father's mother was Elizabeth Bernstein, from Sheffield; he was, therefore, a quarter Jewish as well."
- ^ "James Callaghan". infobritain.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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